UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Support Get ubbttopthreads to work?

I have never been able to get proper behavior our of ubbttopthreads.php in any version.

When I run the script directly from the browser, i get proper results - a nice formatted list of the hot topics.

However, when I try to include it on my .shtml homepage, I get the following gibberish:



The code with which I am including the script is as follows (/path/to/ of course is just for reference sake, the proper path is used on my page):

Any help would be appreciated. I'm at a loss.

I edited your post so as not to stretch my page out.



What you have here is output from the php file being gzipped and then passed through the .shtml page, which is not gzipped. Turn off default gzip handling of php.

When you call a php directly php gzips it, and sets teh header accordingly. Your browser ungzips it, because the http header tells it to. When you include php into a .shtml page the header of that page is not telling your broswer it is gzipped, so your browser doesn't know to ungzip it. Thus that horrid looking mess. Your browser does what the parent tells it to. In this case the parent is an ungzipped .thml page.

The other thing you could do is install mod_gzip and have it gzip encode .shtml pages. But that gets even messier.

I use it with great results. One trick is to make the page using the addon a .php page, this removes a lot of problems.


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Thanks for both of the prompt and informative replies. Never would've considered gzip to be the culprit. But it makes sense. It worked long ago in the days of wwwthreads, and no longer after the php version started to support zipped pages.

I am totally devoid of the skills necessary to make a php page, so I'm going to have to stick with my shtml stuff. I think the best idea for me is to just pull it into an inline frame, whicih appears to be working in early tests.

Thanks guys!